Company description
Luke's Local is an independently-owned grocery business that provides food from local family farms, butchers, ranchers, and food makers. Luke's sincerely sources great food made with integrity, and is passionate about making grocery shopping an inspiring experience for Bay Area communities. We operate four vibrant brick and mortar markets - one on Cole and Parnassus in the heart of Cole Valley, a second in Cow Hollow on Union St, a third on Green Street in North Beach and a fourth in the Inner Sunset on 9th Ave. As a company, we are constantly striving to create an environment that fosters equity, inclusion, and nourishment for our customers and team members alike. Our hope is to make it possible for anyone to bring the spirit of discovery, creativity, and joy into their kitchens. We hope you’ll join us.
Job description
About the Job
As the Grocery Supervisor, you are responsible for sourcing and buying for the following departments in your store:
- Grab & Go
- Home, Health, & Beauty
- Frozen
- Pantry
You are responsible for meeting your department’s margin goals and maintaining healthy and lasting relationships with our partners. You will collaborate with the Store Manager, Assistant Store Manager, and your team of Grocery Clerks to ensure thoughtful displays and service throughout the department and store. You will also collaborate with the Category Management team on sourcing, merchandising standards and guidelines, and promotions planning. You will supervise the Grocery Clerks and work as a team to ensure a fresh and appealing display by keeping cases and shelves clean and well stocked by front-facing, checking codes, rotating, and removing out-of-date products. Flexibility to work weekends and holidays is a required component of this role; all Grocery Supervisors must be available to work at least one weekend day regularly.
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Meet all financial performance metrics of the department, including sales, margin, and waste goals, as well as the percentage of store sales targets.
DATA ACCURACY
- In collaboration with the Category Manager, perform regular department audits and oversee product compliance (price tag accuracy, and weights & measures regulations), reporting discrepancies as they arise to Category Management
- Adhere to guidelines for processing, inventory management, and ordering to ensure daily accuracy of data
- Participate in the accurate collection of your department’s EOQ inventory
VENDOR RELATIONS
- Foster healthy and supportive relationships with core vendors, collaborating with reps to schedule all demos and passive sampling, including First Friday demos
MERCHANDISING
- Ensure all merchandised displays are designed and set up according to our aesthetic and company guidelines and store readiness standards
- Maximize sales potential through effective and proper procedures for storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising products
- Ensure products are routinely FIFO-ed and that employees are adhering to local food handling regulations as it relates to temperature control, dating, and storage per your departments
- Oversee department checklists and protocols daily
- Always seek to improve the customer’s experience on the floor (signage, rearranging product sets, featured products, items of the month, etc)
- Monitor displays to ensure they are consistently full, faced, and fresh
- Ensure compliance with the calendar of featured sets and seasonal/holiday items as provided by Category Management
BUYING
- Buy for the following departments in your store based on inventory, customer requests, and location-specific product sets and aesthetics to meet sales and margin goals:
- Grab & Go
- Home, Health, & Beauty
- Frozen
- Pantry
- Support Dairy, Butcher, G&G, and Deli purchasing as needed
- Assist the Category Management team in identifying each neighborhood's unique needs
- Present new product ideas to the Category Management team on an ongoing basis
- Weekly checks of slow-moving products to present to the Category Management team and to inform best merchandising on the shelf
REPORTING
- Daily review of department financials
- Weekly review of actual vs. goal metrics (revenue, gross margin, waste)
TEAM MANAGEMENT
- Run quarterly meetings with your team to go over priorities, questions, and concerns to build a cohesive team and a great company culture
- Communicate and collaborate with co-workers, supervisors, direct reports, and/or outside contacts in a timely and appropriate manner and in line with our Communication Code of Conduct
- Maintaining a positive, equitable work environment for all staff
- Work with Store Management to develop & revise training guides for Grocery Clerks as needed
- Perform opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned
- Assisting on the floor and front end as needed
Competencies
- Organization
- Strong communicator
- Friendly, team-player
- Good work ethic
- Creative thinker
- Eagerness to learn
- Collaborative
- Ability to read and interpret, analyze the P&L statements
Work environment
Office and sales floor of retail grocery stores
Physical demands
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs
- Must be able to spend 4-8 hours per day on your feet
- Stooping, bending, lifting, standing for long periods of time stretching, twisting, reaching, repetitive stocking motions
- Stocking of shelves and merchandising displays
- Handling of refrigerated products in a cold environment for extended periods of time
- Comfort with handling animal products and byproducts
Required experience
- At least 1 year of supervisory and team leadership experience, or equivalent experience in another role
- At least 1 year of purchasing experience
Preferred education and experience
- Experience with retail, preferably grocery
- Experience with food preparation, service, and safety
- Experience with grocery buying preferred but not required
Additional Eligibility Requirements
- Must be 18 years or older
- Proficient in English
The Luke's Local team is the life force of our company - from our chefs to our store staff to our delivery team - and empowering our employees is a priority for us.
We believe in transparency and open communication at all levels, working hard to stick to our core values and accomplish our mission, and always celebrating the milestones, accomplishments, and other good stuff.
This creates a real community where our team has the opportunities to grow, learn, and prosper as employees and as individuals. We believe strongly in supporting our employees so that their place at Luke's is as meaningful to them as it is to us.
If this sounds like you, we'd love to have you on our team!
Compensation
this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $26.50 - $29.50
Application instructions
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Deadline
no deadline